That's all. Look at the little guys go. It's a tiny little thing I've set up in a cupboard
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Fuck i wanna do that but I'd have no idea where to even begin. I feel like i need a class on basic remodeling and home maintenance
honestly, if you go onto some weed growing forums/discord channels they are so incredibly resourceful. even if youre not growing weed. they have this shit down to a science, they're unbelievably talented
For sure. They were the sensors and computers type of engineer, and I’m more of water, plants and dirt, and so I felt like I kinda knew what was going on, but there were enough wires and readouts to make it feel foreign. Like you said, would love to figure it out, but don’t have the time/resources to accommodate my tinkering/trial and error learning style
. On the flip side I’ve been keeping them stocked up with native plants/shrubs/trees from the prairie plot I’ve been restoring, so they can do the same. I’ve been experimenting with growing food in it too (from seed) and may try bud at some point (I have no idea when to start/plant it). But I have a few patches of okra that grow back perennially! And sporadic corn/peanut patches to maintain the tenuous peace with the squirrels.
That's my biggest problem i feel like psychologically strangling me and keeping me from doing anything, not feeling like i have the (mostly financial) resources to get involved in learning anything... i want to do stuff like add paving stones to part of my back yard, maybe do a little wrap around porch thing or something, or like this grow room set up thing (we have several unused outbuildings with power and one with water that i could literally use for that)
but I have this constant sense of "what if I start, get into the weeds or fuck it up somehow, and everything I need to finish it ends up actually being way more money than i thought" while I'm also in a constant state of "fuck we need more money, we need to save, we need [X big purchase] soon"
I feel like i need a couple thousand dollars in my bank account just to feel safe enough to have agency as a person and I haven't had that in years
I feel that. Drives me nuts that so many things are “can’t be done” due to external constraints. My dream “job” is to be a civil tinkerer and just go around helping people build out projects they “can’t do” but would improve their quality of living. I’ve got enough hillbilly ingenuity leftover that I think anything can be solved with time and creativity; but unlike my Appalachian predecessors I live in a society